I hire tea by the tea bag.

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.